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Appaka
Sutta: Few

At
Savatthi. As he was sitting to one side, King Pasenadi Kosala said to the
Blessed One: “Just now, lord, while I was alone in seclusion, this train
of thought arose in my awareness: ‘Few are those people in the world who, when
acquiring lavish wealth, don’t become intoxicated & heedless, don’t become
greedy for sensual pleasures, and don’t mistreat other beings. Many more are
those who, when acquiring lavish wealth, become intoxicated & heedless,
become greedy for sensual pleasures, and mistreat other beings.’”

“That’s
the way it is, great king! That’s the way it is! Few are those people in the
world who, when acquiring lavish wealth, don’t become intoxicated &
heedless, don’t become greedy for sensual pleasures, and don’t mistreat other
beings. Many more are those who, when acquiring lavish wealth, become intoxicated
& heedless, become greedy for sensual pleasures, and mistreat other
beings.”

That
is what the Blessed One said. Having said that, the One Well-Gone, the Teacher,
said further:

Impassioned
with sensual possessions,

greedy,
dazed by sensual pleasures,

they
don’t awaken to the fact

that
they’ve gone too far —

like
deer into a trap laid out.

Afterwards
it’s bitter for them:

evil
for them

the
result.

Awakeness Practices

All 84,000 Khandas As Found in the
Pali Suttas

Traditionally
the are 84,000 Dharma Doors - 84,000 ways to get Awakeness. Maybe so;
certainly the Buddha taught a large number of practices that lead to
Awakeness. This web page attempts to catalogue those found in the Pali Suttas
(DN, MN, SN, AN, Ud & Sn1). There are 3 sections:

The
discourses of Buddha are divided into 84,000, as to separate addresses. The
division includes all that was spoken by Buddha.”I received from Buddha,” said
Ananda, “82,000 Khandas, andfrom the
priests 2000; these are 84,000 Khandas maintained by me.” They are divided into
275,250, as to the stanzas of the original text, and into 361,550, as to the
stanzas of the commentary. All the discourses including both those of Buddha
and those of the commentator, are dividedinto 2,547 banawaras, containing 737,000 stanzas, and 29,368,000
separate letters.

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The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then
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